CSCI 561 Spring 2005 Syllabus

01-Introduction. [AIMA Ch 1] Course Schedule. Homeworks,
exams and grading. Course material, TAs and office hours. Why study
AI? What is AI? The Turing test. Rationality. Branches of
AI. Research disciplines connected to and at the foundation of
AI. Brief history of AI. Challenges for the future. Overview of class
syllabus.

26-Genetic Algorithms. [handout] Overview of genetic
algorithms and their use in optimization problame.

27-Towards intelligent machines. [AIMA Ch 25] The
challenge of robots: with what we have learned, what hard problems
remain to be solved? Different types of robots. Tasks that robots are
for. Parts of robots. Architectures. Configuration spaces. Navigation
and motion planning. Towards highly-capable robots.

28-Overview and summary. [all of the above] What have we
learned. Where do we go from here?